It covers the period after the end of the Beaker tradition and the early Wessex culture, and was a time when cremation became an almost universal burial rite in Britain.
The pottery of the Deverel-Rimbury culture appears alongside the earlier collared urns in the archaeological record during this period and metalworking developed through the Arreton Down and Acton Park industries.
In his 1986 article Burgess acknowledged that the Bedd Branwen site was wrongly dated.
Burgess renamed the Bedd Branwen period the Aldbourne-Edmondsham phase.
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